Episode 336: Bad Vibrations
JWST has been delayed, hopefully for the last time. Also, JAXA recruiting, Hubble fixes, and Rocket Lab's new radio.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— JWST bonk (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (esa.int) (youtube.com)
— The clamp came off “in a way that it was not designed to come off” (HT deltaV+Deathkin: twitter.com/wapodavenport)
Short & Sweet
— Japan to recruit astronauts for first time in 13 years (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)
— Hubble makes a partial recovery (space.com)
— Rocket Lab to manufacture more spacecraft components (smallsatnews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: Reusable satellites (smallsatnews.com)
This week in SF history
— 2 Dec, 1990. Launch of Soyuz TM-11 (sen.com) (spacefacts.de) (nytimes.com) (weathernews.jp)
— Next week (12/7-12/13) in 1974: Hitze und Geschwindigkeit.